They could always give in to the prospect of juicy revenue from big intrusive flash ads, paid search position, etc.
Anyway, I don't see any that much benefit in having monopoly on web search and other web services, like Microsoft has in the OS market. Anyone can switch to another search engine extremely easily, considering how incredibly simple is the web search principle. You can't just as easy switch to another OS, especially when you are locked in proprietary formats and hardware drivers.
There will always be someone brighter and younger, with good idea and determined enough and he will soon put you out of business, if you are not careful enough. That's the way it should be, and luckily still is, in most cases.
Yes, because book sales are perfect signs to base claims about language popularity on.
C#/.NET book sales are high, that means something, sure. It means that.NET is on rise, but not necessary that it has overcome Java. You see, Java developers won't buy books they already own. The same goes for job demand. You can have higher demand for.NET developers, but that only means unequality between skills and actual job demands. Once that settles down, I predict Java will still be the more popular of the two.
Maybe if you read just a sentence further, you would find out that the Linux CD was meant to help boot the system in case of Windows refusing to start at all (and maybe twiddle with system from there). Not as a replacement of Windows. I do this often even in cases of obvious hardware problems, because Linux often runs (be it with complains) in cases when Windows refuses to.
These so called 'viruses' are actually chunks of SQL planted in backend database via SQL injection. This method assumes that the database software concats (fprints()s,...) unescaped strings to produce SQL queries, which, I hope, is the favourite method for hobbyists, not professionals worth their salt. And even if such crappy software finds it way to the server, it can be patched easily when problems occur.
It's always "the man keeps us [the poor/black people/atheists/religious/geeks/free software developers/Mac users/small businesses/republicans/democrats/communists/anarch ists/pet owners] down", ain't it? Seriously, what is better, some tools helping the disabled use computer, or no tools at all? Do you suggest that they should have aid at all, because it isn't the best our society could do?
"Oh, I'm sorry you can't have a wheelchair, companies are making money selling those..."
Carefully there! Every vigilant slashdotter knows that the NSA is conspiracing with Microsoft, AT&T and the aliens to wiretap your calls. They are probably using this link to keep track of everyone who has something to "hide"...
Maybe, but I am not a 'Linux zealot' per se. I do most my work on Windows, thought I am responsible for developing for Linux platform. I use Linux when it fits my needs.
But I am a 'linux apologist' when it comes to people who presume everything will work effortlessly, and if it by chance doesn't, no one has anything better to do than spend hours fixing other's problems. Especially when the solution would be 'just' to read the manual. When someone 'blames' Linux, who exactly do you blame? The kernel devs? The community? Well the community is not going to be stronger, until more people migrate to Linux. And people don't migrate, because of lacking community support. So tell me again, who do you blame, that things does not 'simply' work?
Again, stick with mainstream if you need things work effortlessly. But then don't expect Linux to get stronger.
Linux kernel developers are not responsible for developing hardware drivers and if there are no drivers for piece of hardware X, you can go back to Windows. Whose fault is it, that there are no drivers? Did you check if they explicitly say it will run on Linux? Because if not, I would blame noone but myself.
And beginning your conversation with Why won't my fucking Linux computer print? is not going to make people very responsive, don't you think?
Granted, I don't live in a sprawling metropolis, so I only have to drive about 3 miles to find a place to shoot, but I've also never had a neighbor complain that I'm practicing at 3am.
The point is, is the game innovative in the right direction?
There are genres and general ideas not followed by any mainstream titles, but have considerable demand from gamers. For example, I always wanted to play a somewhat realistic game with medieval setting and without any magic, basically some kind of freeform RPG game, but without any supernatural nonsense. I finally stumbled upon Mount&Blade. And I found out there are many people who would be waiting for a game like this coming from the mainstream market, but alas, it never came from it.
Of course, if you define innovation as doing something no one ever thought of before, it's something else. But success based on innovation, as in doing something different than others, not doing something previously unthinkable, is not out of reach of indie devs.
We also have Flash (does contain scripted parts), web pages with javascript (again, it contains code), some vector imaging formats are also defined by set of runnable machine code, and so on. The point is, the line between software and data is not so easily defined.
Certain Mr. von Neumann already thought of that some time before, by the way. It's the of the tenets of today's computer design, the Von Neumann architecture, where the code IS the data.
I'm taking that back, it is there actually, my bad. Still I don't see any use to it, w3 encourages CSS defined display logic for so many years, why don't do it the 'right' way?
Maybe it's just me, but when I'm drinking I never think about hangover until I get it. As long as I'm not in that cursed 'am I dead yet?' stage known as hangover, it's just some mildly unpleasant thing I know I will have to go through at some point later.
But anyway, if hangover keeps you from drinking, good for you!
increase the power of fringe minority groups.... having a stable moderate government is quite desirable to everyone
First, I don't see how these two things are opposite. Having in 5% parliament still doesn't really mean much. You can push your (possibly wicked) agenda, but when it comes to key issues, 5% is not enough to really change things. You can align with other parties who hold similiar view, but that's it.
Second, US political situation is no more stable than in most European countries. US system allows less variety, but people still swing between the two parties which is basically what happens in EU countries, only there are more players and more options. Radical parties getting any power is very rare situation.
I love it too. And it's not possible to foretell every scenario the crazy too-much-time-on-his-hands player could come with when he's experimenting with the AI. At least not in a game with this degree of freedom.
Anyway I'm happy there is a game once for a while in which I can be a thief and not be chopped to pieces by the guards when someone catches me pickpocketing.
God forbid multiplayer in TES! I prefer singleplayer RPGs for a reason, and that is roleplaying. In SP games I can really get into the game and play my character's role, without being distracted by kiddies who use MMORPG mostly as a chat room. I don't call a good roleplaying when you end up in a party where two other players are real life buddies who chat about that day's school and call themselves by their real names.
The closest to the real thing that I tried was MUDs (I especially like Iron Realms games, and still play them) but in the end there is usually little fun playing on your own. SP games allow me to play my role and have fun and still not have to socialize. Because you know, I am a geek after all, so I like being alone:-)
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They could always give in to the prospect of juicy revenue from big intrusive flash ads, paid search position, etc.
Anyway, I don't see any that much benefit in having monopoly on web search and other web services, like Microsoft has in the OS market. Anyone can switch to another search engine extremely easily, considering how incredibly simple is the web search principle. You can't just as easy switch to another OS, especially when you are locked in proprietary formats and hardware drivers.
There will always be someone brighter and younger, with good idea and determined enough and he will soon put you out of business, if you are not careful enough. That's the way it should be, and luckily still is, in most cases.
Yes, because book sales are perfect signs to base claims about language popularity on.
.NET is on rise, but not necessary that it has overcome Java. You see, Java developers won't buy books they already own. The same goes for job demand. You can have higher demand for .NET developers, but that only means unequality between skills and actual job demands. Once that settles down, I predict Java will still be the more popular of the two.
C#/.NET book sales are high, that means something, sure. It means that
Maybe if you read just a sentence further, you would find out that the Linux CD was meant to help boot the system in case of Windows refusing to start at all (and maybe twiddle with system from there). Not as a replacement of Windows. I do this often even in cases of obvious hardware problems, because Linux often runs (be it with complains) in cases when Windows refuses to.
Java devs should also check out AjaxAnywhere for pretty much effortless JSP (and also JSF) AJAXification.
Perhaps I'm too old.
Yes, definitely. If, by old, you mean born before 1993.
Hmm, it seems that you, too, are a fine product of the US education.
a tional_Student_Assessment for example.
See http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/2005003.pdf or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_Intern
These so called 'viruses' are actually chunks of SQL planted in backend database via SQL injection. This method assumes that the database software concats (fprints()s, ...) unescaped strings to produce SQL queries, which, I hope, is the favourite method for hobbyists, not professionals worth their salt. And even if such crappy software finds it way to the server, it can be patched easily when problems occur.
It's not a double standard at all, it's just seeking a balanced economic exchange.
Yes, and it's called protectionism.
It's always "the man keeps us [the poor/black people/atheists/religious/geeks/free software developers/Mac users/small businesses/republicans/democrats/communists/anarch ists/pet owners] down", ain't it? Seriously, what is better, some tools helping the disabled use computer, or no tools at all? Do you suggest that they should have aid at all, because it isn't the best our society could do?
"Oh, I'm sorry you can't have a wheelchair, companies are making money selling those..."
Carefully there! Every vigilant slashdotter knows that the NSA is conspiracing with Microsoft, AT&T and the aliens to wiretap your calls. They are probably using this link to keep track of everyone who has something to "hide"...
Maybe, but I am not a 'Linux zealot' per se. I do most my work on Windows, thought I am responsible for developing for Linux platform. I use Linux when it fits my needs.
But I am a 'linux apologist' when it comes to people who presume everything will work effortlessly, and if it by chance doesn't, no one has anything better to do than spend hours fixing other's problems. Especially when the solution would be 'just' to read the manual. When someone 'blames' Linux, who exactly do you blame? The kernel devs? The community? Well the community is not going to be stronger, until more people migrate to Linux. And people don't migrate, because of lacking community support. So tell me again, who do you blame, that things does not 'simply' work?
Again, stick with mainstream if you need things work effortlessly. But then don't expect Linux to get stronger.
Linux kernel developers are not responsible for developing hardware drivers and if there are no drivers for piece of hardware X, you can go back to Windows. Whose fault is it, that there are no drivers? Did you check if they explicitly say it will run on Linux? Because if not, I would blame noone but myself.
And beginning your conversation with Why won't my fucking Linux computer print? is not going to make people very responsive, don't you think?
Granted, I don't live in a sprawling metropolis, so I only have to drive about 3 miles to find a place to shoot, but I've also never had a neighbor complain that I'm practicing at 3am.
I'm wondering why...
The point is, is the game innovative in the right direction?
There are genres and general ideas not followed by any mainstream titles, but have considerable demand from gamers. For example, I always wanted to play a somewhat realistic game with medieval setting and without any magic, basically some kind of freeform RPG game, but without any supernatural nonsense. I finally stumbled upon Mount&Blade. And I found out there are many people who would be waiting for a game like this coming from the mainstream market, but alas, it never came from it.
Of course, if you define innovation as doing something no one ever thought of before, it's something else. But success based on innovation, as in doing something different than others, not doing something previously unthinkable, is not out of reach of indie devs.
We also have Flash (does contain scripted parts), web pages with javascript (again, it contains code), some vector imaging formats are also defined by set of runnable machine code, and so on. The point is, the line between software and data is not so easily defined.
Certain Mr. von Neumann already thought of that some time before, by the way. It's the of the tenets of today's computer design, the Von Neumann architecture, where the code IS the data.
I'm taking that back, it is there actually, my bad. Still I don't see any use to it, w3 encourages CSS defined display logic for so many years, why don't do it the 'right' way?
Maybe it's because there isn't supposed to be an 'align' attribute?
1 .2.4
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-1
Maybe it's just me, but when I'm drinking I never think about hangover until I get it. As long as I'm not in that cursed 'am I dead yet?' stage known as hangover, it's just some mildly unpleasant thing I know I will have to go through at some point later.
But anyway, if hangover keeps you from drinking, good for you!
Informative?
If you have to go through documentation, it's not intuitive.
Intuitive means you can use your intuition and get it work, as opposed to read the manual to get it work.
increase the power of fringe minority groups. ... having a stable moderate government is quite desirable to everyone
First, I don't see how these two things are opposite. Having in 5% parliament still doesn't really mean much. You can push your (possibly wicked) agenda, but when it comes to key issues, 5% is not enough to really change things. You can align with other parties who hold similiar view, but that's it.
Second, US political situation is no more stable than in most European countries. US system allows less variety, but people still swing between the two parties which is basically what happens in EU countries, only there are more players and more options. Radical parties getting any power is very rare situation.
I love it too. And it's not possible to foretell every scenario the crazy too-much-time-on-his-hands player could come with when he's experimenting with the AI. At least not in a game with this degree of freedom.
Anyway I'm happy there is a game once for a while in which I can be a thief and not be chopped to pieces by the guards when someone catches me pickpocketing.
This was actually meant as a reply to ADRA (GP's first reply).. well, I hope you still get my point.
God forbid multiplayer in TES! I prefer singleplayer RPGs for a reason, and that is roleplaying. In SP games I can really get into the game and play my character's role, without being distracted by kiddies who use MMORPG mostly as a chat room. I don't call a good roleplaying when you end up in a party where two other players are real life buddies who chat about that day's school and call themselves by their real names.
:-)
The closest to the real thing that I tried was MUDs (I especially like Iron Realms games, and still play them) but in the end there is usually little fun playing on your own. SP games allow me to play my role and have fun and still not have to socialize. Because you know, I am a geek after all, so I like being alone
Break My Linux Server [211.158.6.94]
:-)
Seems broken enough to me...